Do you ever feel like there are too many "coincidences" in your life?

[john19485]

John flew from Salt Lake and had a layover at the Nashville Airport in 1966, he was going to visit his grandmother, in Mobile, Alabama, they called from the loud speaker for John Mizell, I went up to the counter, and there was another person there, the

airline person asked for John Mizell, both of us answered. He was in the Army from Tennessee, I was in in the Marines, we talk for awhile, and he said I will see you in Vietnam Cousin, that's the last I saw of him, I went to the wall a couple years back, I wanted to know where the wall was in Washington,D.C. so I looked up their web site , I also notice they had a list of the names , near the bottom ,I came across his name , he was killed in Vietnam in January 1967, I went over in July

THE WALL OF FACES - Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

 

[dobielvr]

Yes, all too often. I'll be trying to think of a movie that I had seen...thinking I'll never remember it...then it comes up in a commercial. or thinking about someone and then boom, they call. or seeing someone I had been thinking about. Or, that song that comes on the radio, etc.

 

[JBR]

When my wife is not at home my dogs will come to me all excited and fussing, within a few moments of her calling me to tell me she's on her way home. Happens a lot...

There's an English scientist, Rupert Sheldrake, who has spent years researching this. All of his books are interesting. Botany is the field of his doctorate, but he applies the modern methods of science to everything he researches. One of his books is on this subject, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home.

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[officerripley]

I think coincidences, even strange-seeming ones, are the most common thing in life; they happen all the time, so I don't attribute any meaning whatsoever to them.

 

[JBR]

I think coincidences, even strange-seeming ones, are the most common thing in life; they happen all the time, so I don't attribute any meaning whatsoever to them.

Of course, I wouldn't try to convince you that some "coincidences" are special. But how would what you've posted apply to something like what Nathan described (post #9)?

 

[Naturally]

Of course, I wouldn't try to convince you that some "coincidences" are special. But how would what you've posted apply to something like what Nathan described (post #9)?

Maybe there's something more than coincidence going on there

Also, dogs pick up on subtle things. Perhaps Nathan performs some activity after his wife calls to say she's coming home ... hides the cookies or puts the magazines away . Maybe something subtle he isn't even aware of. And the dogs pick up on it and associate the wife coming home soon. Bet the dogs didn't start getting excited and fussy concerning the "coincidence" until they had picked up and learned something.

Or could be if the wife isn't home ... the dogs get excited and fussy after each time the phone rings ... unless maybe the dogs picked up on some speech pattern he only expresses when talking to the wife. Dogs do learn to understand certain words and phrases.

 

[JBR]

Maybe there's something more than coincidence going on there

Also, dogs pick up on subtle things. Perhaps Nathan performs some activity after his wife calls to say she's coming home ... hides the cookies or puts the magazines away . Maybe something subtle he isn't even aware of. And the dogs pick up on it and associate the wife coming home soon. Bet the dogs didn't start getting excited and fussy concerning the "coincidence" until they had picked up and learned something.

Or could be if the wife isn't home ... the dogs get excited and fussy after each time the phone rings ... unless maybe the dogs picked up on some speech pattern he only expresses when talking to the wife. Dogs do learn to understand certain words and phrases.

I can't pass judgment but in Nathan's situation, if his wife phones at random times, without some predictable pattern, he might not be giving some of those subtle hints to the dog. He can speak to that, not me.

I don't think Sheldrake is naive. His studies & published examples have to do with cases where those sorts of variables have been considered possibilities, then eliminated as not being factors in the instance.

 

[Rae]

I sometimes think of a famous person and then I read or see on TV that person has died around the time I thought of them. I was thinking of one of my doctors and looked him up on Google. There was his obituary. I had no idea he died that same week. Strange things seem to happen to me. Coincidence, I guess.

 

[hollydolly]

Sometimes I think I can tell who is on the phone by the sound of the ring. Is the ring really different or am I just hearing it differently?

That is so funny you've said that because I used to say this all the time to my husband, of course he mocked it as any sane person probably would but it's true 9 times out of 10 I could tell who was ringing..( talking landlines here not mobile where you can see whose ringing )

 

[hollydolly]

I have quite a few co-oincidences happen to me.

One that stands out is that I had moved to England as a teen and lost touch with my best friend.You promise to keep in touch but don't...

Years go by and I never stopped wondering how she was getting on...

In my 40's I took a road trip to Scotland.. and on the way late at night /early morning we stopped off at a roadside services...

I saw a group of women, and realised my best friend was among them. The chances of us both travelling at the same time and stopping at one of the main roadside services at precisely the same time over 20 years later must be huge !

 

[Pepper]

You both must have been overjoyed!! @hollydolly

 

[hollydolly]

You both must have been overjoyed!! @hollydolly

it was incredible... she spotted me at almost exactly the same time as I spotted her..she had her adult daughter with her, the last time I'd seen her she was just weeks old... !

 

[Naturally]

Billy Preston said ...

 

[officerripley]

Of course, I wouldn't try to convince you that some "coincidences" are special. But how would what you've posted apply to something like what Nathan described (post #9)?

It would apply as Naturally answered so well in Post #31.

 

[Babs2u]

There's an English scientist, Rupert Sheldrake, who has spent years researching this. All of his books are interesting. Botany is the field of his doctorate, but he applies the modern methods of science to everything he researches. One of his books is on this subject, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home.

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Thanks, JBR. I will look him up and maybe see if Abebooks has one of his books for sale.

 

[AnnieA]

Sometimes I think I can tell who is on the phone by the sound of the ring. Is the ring really different or am I just hearing it differently?

That's happened to me on the rare occasion but it has nothing to do with the ring; I just know who it is when I hear the first ring. Sometimes it's someone who calls frequently which is kind of understandable, but the times it really hits me that it's not the norm is when I know who it is and haven't talked to that person in awhile, don't talk to them regularly.

 

[AnnieA]

So, I saw an interview yesterday on the news with the owner of a Lexus dealership in New Jersey. It made me think of an account that used to own an Infiniti dealership in New Jersey. They sold it and went into the travel business. They were great friends, but they had an account manager that was horrible. I used to hear about it all the time. I couldn't remember her name.

Today I went on LinkedIn for shits and giggles and scrolled through the names of people that it suggested I connect with. That particular account manager came up! I could have never come up with her name, but there it was.

I have also had several occasions where I have been playing Wordscapes and watching TV and the particular word that I entered came up at exactly the same time it was mentioned by the TV personality.

I can't explain it, but these situations happen often. Has anyone else experienced the same? If so, why does this happen?

Yes! So weird when things like that happen. About a year ago, I told a friend about a guy in high school I dated a few times before his family moved several states away and I started college. Haven't discussed him with anyone in ages. He and I didn't keep in touch after several months of long distance phone calls though we had a strong case of teen infatuation.

A month or so after telling my friend about him, he sent me a facebook request. He and both have been on facebook for years without being fb friends, but he sends me a request so soon after that conversation... Then a few months later, I was helping my mom clean out her attic and found my senior year book that I thought must have been lost in my parent's move during my 20s. There, on the first page, was his note to me ..."signed my annual" as we called it.

 

[Mr. Ed]

Do you ever feel like there are too many "coincidences" in your life? Coincidently speaking, I was just thinking that.​